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"For years, magazines and newspapers have used photo galleries to tell stories. Photos can build emotion, provide information, encourage a specific action and create great questions. We can have our kids do the same thing by asking them to create Five Photo Stories. It seems like a great way for kids to activate prior knowledge, review information, learn new content or practice summarizing. It's basically an all-purpose graphic organizer! "

Check this lesson out.

"an interactive site that has students analyze a historical photo and make conclusions about the photo.Their job is to figure out what is going on in the photo"

Very interesting site to learn about history and digital literacy

"View more than 57,000 historic videos and 7 million photos for FREE in one of the world's largest collections of royalty-free archival stock footage. Offering immediate downloads in more than 10 SD and HD formats, including screeners in all formats"

Check this site out for historical footage. Share with students as well.

Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not!

Another source of photos for projects that aren't restricted by copyright

100 yrs. of photos from the National Archives.

Great site for finding images by time period

"A Timeline tells a story - of a major historical event, of last night's big game, of your life - in an exciting visual way, using pictures taken by the world's top photographers. (And you, too!)"

This timeline creator is from Life Magazine so you have access to their photos to create your story. You can add your own images and a storyline as well.

For assessing different types of historical artifacts including: artifacts, cartoons, maps, movies, photos, posters, sound recordings written docs. 

Pin your history to the world. Find pictures from around the world from 1840 on.

this site is an amazing resource for original photos. What an incredible way to see what was going on at a particular time and place through the photos of people who were there.

"In remembrance of the Union and Confederate soldiers who served in the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Liljenquist Family recently donated their rare collection of almost 700 ambrotype and tintype photographs to the Library of Congress."

"Capture photos, videos, music, tweets, posts, and much more. View and share your entire life online. Create stories of your best memories together with your friends.Explore and search your life and the lives of your friends online."

looks interesting

reverse image searching: http://www.tineye.com/ Find the source of any image on the web! #ITSC11

Good resource to share with students so that photos are correctly attributed in their work

"Assuming you're not working for a media corporation with huge graphics and statistics departments at your disposal, you may want to create some infographics for your own articles. With today's flood of information, infographics allow readers to quickly digest and understand complex data. A good infographic will not only inform readers, but will also create interest and convince people to read your article similar to how good headlines and photos attract readers. In contrast, both boring and overly complex graphics will quickly convince readers to ignore your article."

Historic photographs from New York Times archives.

"Every teacher seems to fully acknowledge how quickly and comfortably the average student adopts new technology. The truth is, students learn how to have fun on an iPad pretty quickly, but they don't always learn how to trouble shoot, be safe, and learn effectively right off the bat. Having a team of students that are well trained in iPad support can help build leadership amongst your students, and will help alleviate the stress on both students and teachers as they learn to adopt this new technology."

Links to many different sources on US history. They can all be searched by decades.

"a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. Picturing America is an interactive gallery of artwork related to events, people, and themes in American history. You can browse the gallery chronologically or by theme. Click on any image in the gallery to learn about the artist and the artwork itself. Along with the background information for each image, Picturing America provides links to additional resources for learning about the artwork and artists.' - Richard Byrnes

It not only finds cool copyright-friendly images from Flickr's CC pool, it emphasizes a respect for intellectual property.

Great search engine for images

Create your own timeline using the life magazine site.

Looks like a very fun way to get students to connect to a time period by creating their own stories about that point in history.

"Eye of the Storm takes you on an unforgettable journey through the Civil War. Through this online intepretation, you can experience the life of a Civil War soldier through Sneden's journal entries. Audio accounts of Sneden's narrative with commentary by the Director of the Virginia Historical Society, Charles F. Bryan, Jr. can be heard by visiting the movies section of this site. Also included here are forums through which visitors can discuss the work and Civil War history."

This a must see site. So much on the civil war including sketches drawn by a civil war soldier.